A nude

Arthistorian G. Knuttel wrote in 1946 on the nude in Rdecker's oeuvre: "From the beginning it is the human being that employs Rdecker, more specific the female nude, as a pure impersonation of the female essence. He is not concerned with the rendering of a certain body, but with the dreamed ideal of the Woman and, moreover, with what seems to be essentially feminin to him. (cf.lit. exh.cat. The Hague, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Gerijpte Kunst, 1946, p. 41-42)

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